Mercury/32 A Mail Server for Microsoft Windows and Novell NetWare Systems This manual, the Mercury Mail Transport System Software and all associated text and graphics are Copyright (c) 1993-2007 David Harris, all rights reserved. “Mercury Mail Transport System”, “Mercury”, and “Mercury/32” (in the context of elec- tronic mail servers) are trademarks of David Harris, all rights reserved. Contents Overview of Mercury/32 . 1 Introduction . 1 System Requirements . 2 Running under Windows Vista . 2 Planning your installation . 2 Scenario 1: Permanent Internet connection . 3 Scenario 2: ADSL or ISDN connection with non-static IP addresses . 3 Scenario 3: Dialup connection . 3 Scenario 4: No Internet connection . 3 Using other modules . 4 Installing Mercury/32 . 4 Running Mercury/32 . 4 Running Mercury/32 as a service: . 5 The Mercury Core Module . 6 Critical items . 6 Configuring the Core Module . 6 The “Mercury Core Module” Configuration menu option.. 7 Options on the General page . 7 Options on the Mail Queue page . 8 Queue Processing Controls . 9 Secondary queues for mail submission. 10 Options on the Local Domains page . 11 Domain mailboxes . 11 Novell NetWare NDS Mode . 11 Options on the Groups page. 12 Options on the Files page. 12 Options on the Reporting page. 13 Options on the Advanced page. 14 Address auto-recognition settings. 15 Template files . 16 Configuring the Autonomous Mail Server . 17 General mail server configuration . 17 Editing the mail server template files. 18 Aliases . 18 Public folder aliases . 19 Special aliases for autoresponding and filtering . 19 Network support . 19 NetWare Bindery Mode Support . 20 NetWare NDS Mode Support . 20 Managing local users . 20 Configuring Pegasus Mail to use Mercury/32. 21 Mailing lists. 22 Mailing list settings and options . 22 Creating and managing mailing lists . 22 Creating a list. 22 Copying lists . 23 Managing a list’s settings and membership . 23 The General Page. 23 The List Access Page. 24 Settings controlling submission of mail to the list . 25 The Distribution Page . 27 Digest support . 28 Anonymous mail support. 28 The Error Handling Page. 28 The Membership Page. 30 Using mailing lists . 31 Using Mail Server commands to manage lists . 31 Using the MercuryB Web Server MLSS Service to manage subscriptions 32 Policies . 34 Understanding how policies work . 34 Sentinel and result files. 35 Policy command settings . 35 Actions Mercury can take when a policy exception occurs . 36 Commandline substitutions. 36 Policy issues . 37 Sample policies . 37 Mail Filtering Rules . 38 How mail filtering works . 38 Actions that rules can perform. 41 Inserting text fragments (disclaimers) . 42 Rule order, editing and examples. 42 Advanced rule processing options . 43 Flow Control. 43 Creating logical operations in your rule sets . 44 Content Control . 46 How it works . 46 Using the Content control dialog . 47 Editing a Content Control definition . 47 The General Page . 48 The Exceptions Page. 48 The Message Tests Page. 48 The Actions Page . 49 Header addition and advanced options . 50 Mercury's Content Control Filtering Language . 51 The types of test . 51 General layout. 54 Making the most of regular expressions. 55 Matching anywhere within the text . 56 The MercuryS SMTP Server Module. 57 General settings . ..